Classic boxing quotes

-KOKid- · Post by **-KOKid-** » 31 May 2006, 07:53

Willie Pep delivered a classic once:

"I've been married six times and all my wives were great housekeepers.
After every divorce they each kept the house."

-KOKid-

sockdolager · Post by **sockdolager** » 31 May 2006, 08:24

Cosell- "there are 10 reporters at ringside and 9 of them pick you to lose. What do you have to say to that?"

Bassillio- "9 of em are wrong."

Flump · Post by **Flump** » 01 Jun 2006, 07:59

Ingemar Johanssen gave a radio interview before his fight with Brian London saying that his sister could beat London.

At the end of the fight with Johanssen laying on the floor after suffering a heavy knockdown London leant over him and shouted "You should have brought your feckin sister!"

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 01 Jun 2006, 13:17

... a post script to that johannssen/london fight :

at that time a fighter could be saved by the bell.... count stopped when bell rang. ingo was on the canvas and out, and he won the fight by a decision. a newspaper printed the photo of ingo lying there, and the headline said "WAKE UP INGO....YOU WON!!!"

BoxBuzz · Post by **BoxBuzz** » 01 Jun 2006, 13:19

Jaclem wrote:... a post script to that johannssen/london fight :

at that time a fighter could be saved by the bell.... count stopped when bell rang. ingo was on the canvas and out, and he won the fight by a decision. a newspaper printed the photo of ingo lying there, and the headline said "WAKE UP INGO....YOU WON!!!"

What I would give for a copy of that front page. Even if it was just a copy or something I could print fromt the internet I would have it framed.

tagjohnson · Post by **tagjohnson** » 19 Nov 2006, 15:38

Tex Cobb provided good quotes even when they weren't his. During his fight with Earnie Shavers, comentator Don Dunphy kept refering to them (in very politicaly correct fashion) as "the fighter with the mustache and the fighter with the shaved head." Color comentator Ken Norton kept correcting him by saying "the white guy and the black guy."

cubedrum · Post by **cubedrum** » 24 Nov 2006, 00:01

"Women mean more to me than anything else on earth. If I can't see 'em I can't love 'em , so I'm hanging up my gloves." - Harry Greb upon retiring

"My toughest fight was with my first wife." - Muhammad Ali

"There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance." - George Foreman

One of my favorites.....
“Do you have any more excuses tonight Roy?” – Antonio Tarver, after receiving ring instructions at the beginning of his second fight with Roy Jones.

pundit · Post by **pundit** » 24 Nov 2006, 00:09

My fav:

Jack Dempsey in Max Baer's corner after round 1 of Baer's fight vs. Joe Louis (1935): "You're doing great, kid, he's not hitting you".

Max: "Then you better watch out for the ref, because someone in there is hitting the hell out of me".

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 24 Nov 2006, 03:28

...sometimes when joe louis was asked who hit him the hardest he said "The IRS."

tagjohnson · Post by **tagjohnson** » 13 Jan 2007, 19:08

Just in case anyone thought Ali's ego was an act. After the first round of the Foreman/Norton fight, a ringside Ali was asked his opinion of the fight. Ali bragged that Ken was a great fighter since he had gone 24 rounds with him (Ali) and picked Norton to win. And further said "George Foreman will not destroy Ken Norton!" PS In his modestly titled autobiography "The Greatest" Ali said the Ken would have won if he had known that the victor was getting a shot at him (Ali).

ringsider · Post by **ringsider** » 13 Jan 2007, 20:33

"If it ain't broke, then you ain't hitting it hard enough."

Jimmy"Buzz Saw" Busch 1902 Bantamweight contender

tagjohnson · Post by **tagjohnson** » 06 May 2007, 18:50

I heard a couple of cracks about the Dempsey/Firpo fight. Don't know from who. "If the fight had been on a barge Firpo would have been champ because Dempsey would have drowned." "They should have sold ads on the soles of Firpo's shoes."

'Rocket'Rigby · Post by **'Rocket'Rigby** » 08 May 2007, 04:34

Some of my favourites:

"In the ring I never really knew fear" - Rocky Marciano

"Rocky didn't really know much about the boxing book but it wasn't a book he hit me with, it was a whole library of bonecrushers" - Joe Louis

"He (Marciano) fights like a bull with gloves on" - Archie Moore

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights" - Muhammad Ali

granberry · Post by **granberry** » 10 May 2007, 08:20

Expug wrote:Ron Standers wife after Stander was thrashed by Joe Frazier: "Ron fighting Joe is like putting a Volkswagon in the Indy 500".

Sounds like a wife he should have gotten rid of.

granberry · Post by **granberry** » 10 May 2007, 08:23

'Rocket'Rigby wrote:

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights" - Muhammad Ali

Sorry, Rigby

but Ali didn't talk like that.

You are quoting a manufactured "quote" made up by an Ali parasite like Thomas Hauser.

granberry · Post by **granberry** » 10 May 2007, 08:32

'Rocket'Rigby wrote:
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights" - Muhammad Ali

Here is what would be a true quote on that subject:

"The fight is won when Doug Jones beats the hell out of me and I am given a phony decision, when Jimmy Young gives me a boxing lesson for fifteen rounds and I am given a phony decision, when mediocrity Ken Norton causes me to struggle with him for 49 rounds while I am handed gift decisions, when I lose my title to a novice who had only 7 professional fights and the sycophant "news" media still calls me the 'greatest of all time,' when the media suppresses the fact that Joe Frazier beat me thoroughly and knocked me flat on my back, etc etc etc" - Muhammad Ali

granberry · Post by **granberry** » 10 May 2007, 08:53

Ali after the Jimmy Young fight:

"Howard, he hits better than I was told. I've got a broken eardrum."

m1kee50 · Post by **m1kee50** » 13 May 2007, 04:58

so as not to annoy people, i will ask if this is true?

Ali to Frazier (in the fight) : They told me you was washed up champ...
Frazier to Ali (as he hits him) : They lied, champ! they lied!

generic screen name · Post by **generic screen name** » 14 May 2007, 01:48

Mikee wrote:so as not to annoy people, i will ask if this is true?

Ali to Frazier (in the fight) : They told me you was washed up champ...
Frazier to Ali (as he hits him) : They lied, champ! they lied!

I think I saw in an interview w/Joe Frazier that he said that it I'm not 100% positive. Ali was very known for talking during boxing matches, so I wouldn't doubt it.

One of my faves was someone asking why Willie Pep was broke and Pep responded: "Fast women, slow horses"

tagjohnson · Post by **tagjohnson** » 14 May 2007, 17:59

Fast women and slow horses eh? ROTFLMAO

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 14 May 2007, 18:21

"No matter the excuse or explaination, what someone does in the end is what they intended to do all along."

Cus D'Amato

tagjohnson · Post by **tagjohnson** » 10 Aug 2007, 12:34

I love this post

Neri · Post by **Neri** » 12 Aug 2007, 07:02

Just a modern day one which had me in stitches. Bernard Hopkins post fight interview talking about the body shot that KO'd De La Hoya.

Hopkins: The left hook was the one that really made him say "urgh". I heard the wind come out of him.

Merchant: It was sort of like chopped liver

Hopkins: It was chopped liver with a little bit of sauce on it...Hopkins sauce!

abosworth · Post by **abosworth** » 13 Aug 2007, 12:43

Great thread!! Bump.... All the ones I knew have already been stated.

abosworth · Post by **abosworth** » 13 Aug 2007, 12:43

abosworth wrote:Great thread!! Bump.... All the ones I knew have already been posted.

Classic boxing quotes

Cobb vs Shavers

Re: Cobb vs Shavers

Foreman vs Norton

Dempsey vs Firpo

fast women and slow horses

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Re: fast women and slow horses

Re: fast women and slow horses